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Sport, 1909

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The Cricket Match. South Australia V. N.S.W.

Evening News · Monday 11 January 1909 · page 4

The match between South Australia and New South Wales was resumed at the Sydney Cricket Ground this morning under pleasant conditions. There was some rain at the…

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Inter-state Cricket Match South Australia v, New South Wales

The Australian Star · Monday 11 January 1909 · page 6

Increased interest was created in the return Sh[?]eld Shield match between New South Wales and South Australia at Sydney Cricket Ground on Saturday, as a result of…

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Ladies at Cricket. Defeated by the Gentlemen. Moss Vale

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 January 1909 · page 6

A cricket match was played this afternoon on the Hill View cricket ground between a team of ladies captained by Miss E. Campbell and a team of gentlemen under Captain Leslie…

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Late Cable News. Receiver To-day. The Cricket Trouble. Mr. Warner's Views

Evening News · Monday 11 January 1909 · page 4

LONDON, Sunday Evening.—Writing in the "Westminster Gazette," Mr. P. F. Warner says the leading cricketers of Australia unduly flatter themselves if they believe the Marylebone…

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Union Football Team on Tour Wallabies Defeat Anglo-Welsh Easily. Prospects Against Wales London, December 11

The Australian Star · Monday 11 January 1909 · page 1

Owing to the fact that we are to live a week's clear spell before both international. matches, I have only one match to describe by this mall-- that against the…

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The Cricket Dispute What P. F. Warner Says Marylebone Club's Attitude Warning to the Players London, Sunday, 2 p.m

The Australian Star · Monday 11 January 1909 · page 1

Mr. P. F. Warner, who took the 1904-5 English Eleven to the Southern Hemisphere, and who is now Caption of the Middlesex County Eleven, writing in the…

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The Cricket Match. South Australia V. N.S.W. a Big Partnership. by Bardsley and Macartney, Gregory Misses the Century Home Team's Good Lead. (Continued from page 4.)

Evening News · Monday 11 January 1909 · page 5

Play bad only been in progress a little while, in the match between South Australia and New South Wales at the Sydney Cricket Ground, this afternoon, when an unusual incident…

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Cricket Edition. "Evening News" Office, 6.30 p.m. "The Broken Hill Explosion. Extent of the Destruction. Not the Trick of a Decent Miner." Arrested Men Before the Court. Heavy Bail Allowed. Tom Mann Carried Shoulder High. Triumphal Progress to Trades Hall. Cheered by Assembled Crowds

Evening News · Monday 11 January 1909 · page 5

BROKEN HILL, Monday Afternoon.—A visit to Messrs. Wilkinson and Company's store this morning confirms the opinion that it was not intended to wreck the building. The rear…

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Bowls

Evening News · Tuesday 12 January 1909 · page 4

The Pennant Committee has inquired into the protest lodged by Waverley against the City Club for having played a man in the "B" Competition who was not a member of the club. The…

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Swimming. Australasian Championships

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 January 1909 · page 10

The members of the Victorian team who are to take part in the Australasian championships arrived in Sydney by the Melbourne express on Sunday morning, and took up their quarters at a private [?]carding-house…

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Boxing Oe Prize-fighting?

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 12 January 1909 · page 8

The Paddington aldermen had a good deal to ray last night with regard to the late contest for the boxing championship. Aid. George submitted a motion asking the council to express a strong opinion that every…

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Boxing. South Coast Championship

Evening News · Tuesday 12 January 1909 · page 4

WOONONA, Tuesday.—In the Friendly Societies' Hall, Arthur Smith, heavyweight champion of the South Coast, met and defeated Jack Sullivan, of Sydney, in four rounds, for a…

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Boxing the Griffo Fund

The Australian Star · Tuesday 12 January 1909 · page 3

The fund inaugurated to secure the return of Griffo to Australia is gradually amounting up, and at the present time stands at £24 Ds Gd. Several further sums have been…

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Cricket. Player Entertained

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 12 January 1909 · page 10

Oil Wednesday, at the A.B.C. rooms, Pitt-street, the members of the Russon and Larson Combined Cricket Club tendered a dinner to Mr. K. B. Fowler, prior to his departure for Dubbe. Mr. W. Cane occupied the…

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International Cricket. Mr. P. F. Warner's Views. on the Cricket Dispute

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 12 January 1909 · page 7

LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.-- Mr. P. F. Warner, writing in the "Westminster Gazette," says that the leading Australian cricketers unduly flatter themselves if they…

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Lawn Tennis Council Meeting Review of the English Season

The Australian Star · Tuesday 12 January 1909 · page 4

To-night the adjourned meeting of the council of the New South Wales Association will be held at Aaron's Exchange Hotel, at a quarter to S. Mr. P. B. Colquhoun will…

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Cricket. the Australian Eleven. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 January 1909 · page 10

Sir,—Would you kindly allow me space in your valuable paper to state the claims of Messrs. E. A. Windsor and N. Dodds, both of Tasmania, towards the next Australian Eleven—the former an all-round player…

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Aldermen and Boxing Contests. What Is a Prize Fight? Paddington Council's Powers. a Difference of Opinion

Evening News · Tuesday 12 January 1909 · page 6

The recent prize fight between Tommy Barns and Jack Johnson at the Stadium, Rushcutter's Bay for the championship of the world was very much referred to during the discussion at…

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The Cricket Match. South Australia's Score Topped Bardsley and Macartney Make Centuries

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 12 January 1909 · page 10

Two of the New South Wales batsmen Macartney and Bardsley, made centuries in the inter-State match yesterday against the South Australian bowling, while Syd. Gregory…

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Cricket M.c.c. and Australia. Mr. Lacey on the Triangular Conference

The Australian Star · Tuesday 12 January 1909 · page 3

At a meeting of the M.C.C. at Lord's on December [?] Mr. F. E. Lacey (the secretary) said that he would like to remind all present that full strength would be required for the…

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